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Universities need to lift their game on industry and community research, says the Victorian government’s tertiary education adviser. By John Ross. Universities need to develop five-year community engagement plans and to appoint senior executives with stand-alone responsibilities for "third stream" ...

International education has entered a recycled phase, with overseas enrolments increasingly sourced from people already studying here. By John Ross. About two in five international enrolments are now recycled former students rather than fresh overseas arrivals, figures from the Department ...

The opposition’s attempt to wind back youth allowance reforms may succeed, despite government protests that it’s unconstitutional. The seemingly never-ending political stoush over the youth allowance has entered uncharted constitutional waters, as the federal government tries to prevent the opposition ...

UK government funding for university teaching has slumped so low that Oxford and Cambridge could be better off without it. But they still want the government’s research grants. The UK’s top-ranked university has reportedly threatened to ‘go private’ over dissatisfaction ...

To exceed, or not to exceed? John Ross tries to unravel the economics of growing past the cap. Milo Minderbinder, the obsessively entrepreneurial American mess officer in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, buys Maltese eggs for seven cents each and sells them ...

Rushed legislation for the national VET regulator could end up entrenching past problems, the AEU believes. The federal government has missed a chance to repair loopholes in vocational training by rushing its legislation for the national VET regulator, says the ...

Australia’s national VET research centre is increasingly delving into the higher education world, as the integrated tertiary sector takes shape. Australia’s key VET research centre is broadening its role to embrace higher education, in a de facto response to the ...

English language courses are experiencing unprecedented popularity – on international TV, anyway. An English language program broadcast through the Asia-Pacific region was the second-most downloaded of any ABC TV program last year, attracting well over a million video podcasts. Australia ...

Ballarat is upgrading its relationship with its longest standing private partner, as it gears up for 2012. The University of Ballarat is taking one of its most significant long-term relationships to “the next level”, says vice-chancellor Professor David Battersby, by ...

New statistics on teenage study across the educational sectors reveal some interesting trends. Teenage higher education students began embracing the Bradley expansion agenda a few years before the federal government adopted it in 2009, according to new figures from the ...